“A country is known by the way it treats its animals.”

Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.

America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.

History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Humans are social animals. We seek belonging. We feel safer in a tribe than alone. But not all tribes are healthy.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.